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Month: February 2011

http://solaculture.com/ Solaculture arrays can provide very high solar concentration at low cost. They are composed of regions of land or water covered with porous canopies and a means to provide a slow downward airflow thru the porous canopies to reverse and control the typical buoyancy induced upward air flow resulting from solar heating and water … Continue reading Solaculture

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/magazine/24labor-t.html The television show “Deadliest Catch” depicts commercial crab fishermen in the Bering Sea. Another, “Dirty Jobs,” shows all kinds of grueling work; one episode featured a guy who inseminates turkeys for a living. The weird fascination of these shows must lie partly in the fact that such confrontations with material reality have … Continue reading “Shop”

By the end of this course participants will: · understand the purpose of training · be able to set objectives for training · be able to decide what the course content should be · understand the importance of the methods of training Introduction This paper is in five parts: 1 the aims of training 2 … Continue reading Designing a training course

I have just written to a Lord! Lord WarnerHouse of LordsLondonSW1A 0PW Dear Lord Warner, Future for older people I helped open what was allegedly an old people's home but it consisted of flats. A couple moved into one and I won a Social Security Appeal Tribunal case that "a married couple were not a married couple … Continue reading Future for older people

BORIS Johnson has pressed the button to begin work on an £80 million recycling plant to transform household rubbish into electricity for 15,000 homes across East London.Britain’s first large-scale advanced gasification plant will turn 100,000 tonnes of waste into nearly 20 megawatts of ‘green’ energy a year when it opens in 2013.This facility will take … Continue reading Beckton – London’s eco power house